More ‘Hidden in Plain Sight’.

 I used the picture below a few years ago to share some of Bessler’s ways of hiding information in plain sight.

In the above picture Bessler used the alphabet to label the various parts.  In previous images he numbered all the parts and designed them to add up to a significant total. In this one we are required to convert the letters to numbers and add them together to arrive at another significant total.

The labels on the left side converted alphanumerically total 190

Those on the right similarly treated, total 170.  Addend together they total 360.

So with a total of 360, we then count the number of letters used, they run from ‘a’ through to ‘t’ and ‘t’ is the 20th letter.  As was done with all the drawings in DT, 360 divided by 20 gives us 18 again, the angle at the base of every single one in the pentagram.

But in place of the lettter ‘j’, Bessler places the number 10, which confusingly could be read as the letter ‘w’ - red-ringed in the above picture.  This must have been deliberate as ‘w’ is the RoT 13 version of the letter ‘j’, and ‘j’, of course is the alphanumeric version of the number 10.  So ‘j’, ‘w’ and ‘10’ are interchangeable.  ‘W’ is used by Bessler to indicate two letter ‘v’s and show them as linked together.

All this is supported by the frequent pointer to the importance of the number five and the geometric figure, the pentagram.

The reason for the pentagram is to tell us to use five mechanisms - or seven or nine.  It also allowed him to embed the pentagram in his drawings which was demonstrated by his inclusion of Euclid’s instruction on how to draw that figure.  It is also a convenient way to contain the important parts of the drawing, leading us to extract the important information.   I believe Bessler included two versions of his perpetual motion machine hidden in plain sight within that drawing and it is down to us to find the right configuration, the one that will work. 

This is all old stuff but I’ve published it again because either my visitors are new to the blog and unaware of all that’s gone before - or, frustratingly, all my efforts to lead people to the right answers is ignored, overlooked or dismissed as my obsessive, paranoid personality.  

Anyway I’ll continue to publish what I know and hope that one day someone will prove me right.

JC